Court drama A Guilty Conscience picks up top prize at Hong Kong Film Awards while crime thriller The Goldfinger is big winner
- Veteran Tony Leung takes best actor prize for his role as flamboyant con-man in The Goldfinger, which wins six awards in total
- In Broad Daylight, a drama based on a true story about a reporter exposing cases of abuse in a care home for the elderly and disabled, wins three awards
Court drama A Guilty Conscience, the highest-grossing local movie in the city’s cinema history, picked up the top prize at the prestigious Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday.
As expected, crime thriller The Goldfinger was the night’s big winner grabbing six awards, with Tony Leung Chiu-wai receiving the best actor prize for the sixth time.
The presentation ceremony for the awards, widely regarded as the local equivalent of the Oscars, was held at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.
A Guilty Conscience director Jack Ng Wai-lun thanked Hong Kong audiences and crew members as he collected the best film award, the movie’s sole win.
“I felt the solidarity, which is very important. We should all work together in the production of a movie,” he said.
Dayo Wong Tsz-wah, who was nominated for best actor for his role as an acid-tongued lawyer in the film, also dedicated the award to the team.
